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Which words could fill in the blanks so that the sentence below makes sense?

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Because the protagonists of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer are children, readers see how

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blank views of race affect their perspectives at an age before blank becomes entrenched.

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And here are the potential answers...

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We don't have to have read Tom Sawyer to see

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that the key word in this sentence is "race."

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So we know that whatever word fits in the second blank has to have something to do with

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racial relations.

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"Reliance" and "dependence" don't have anything to do with race, and, honestly,

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don't make much sense at all in this context.

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We're not even going to give them the time of day.

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Since "entrenched" means to set in, and not always in a good way, we know that whatever

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word we're looking for needs to have a negative connotation.

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Choice (A), "admiration," is therefore easy to eliminate...

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Because admiration is way too positive for this sentence.

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"Suspicion" seems acceptably unpleasant so (C) is a possibility...

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But "prejudice," as in racism, works better with the topic at hand.

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Since "conventional" means normal or accepted, at least according to society,

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(D) is the correct answer...

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But eh, what does society know?

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